International

Sydney: Australia said Monday it was appalled at China's suspended death sentence for writer and democracy blogger Yang Hengjun. Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said in a statement it was “harrowing news for Dr Yang, his family and all who have supported him.” Yang has...

Islamabad: A new political party named Pakistan Markazi Muslim League, believed to be a new face of the banned groups of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed, is participating in Thursday's general elections, according to a media report. A BBC Urdu report has...

Ramallah: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has urged UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to step up international efforts to stop the ongoing Israeli "aggression" against the Palestinian people. Abbas made the remarks Sunday during his meeting at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah with the UN Special Coordinator...

Colombo: The Sri Lankan Navy has arrested 23 Indian fishermen and seized two trawlers for allegedly poaching in the island nation's waters, according to an official statement here. The fishermen were arrested, and their two trawlers were seized Saturday north of the Delft Island, Jaffna,...

Islamabad: Ahead of Pakistan's general elections, the Supreme Court has ruled that electoral laws must be interpreted to favour enfranchisement to ensure voters have maximum choices to elect their future leadership, a media report said Sunday. Justice Syed Mansoor Ali wrote this in a judgement...

Karachi: Ahead of the February 8 general elections in Pakistan, the government of Balochistan has implemented a ban on public meetings and election gatherings in the province because of a threat alert regarding a “potential female suicide bomber”. Jan Achakzai, Balochistan Minister of Information and...

Harare (Zimbabwe): Hage Geingob, President of Namibia, one of Africa's most stable democracies, died Sunday while receiving medical treatment at a local hospital, his office announced. The Namibian presidency said Geingob's medical team at Lady Pohamba Hospital did its best to help him, but he...

New Delhi: India has sought greater market access for certain products such as steel, rice, and shrimp from South Korea with a view to boost exports of these goods, an official said. These are part of the negotiations, which are underway, for the upgradation of...

London: Rishi Sunak, the UK's Indian-origin Prime Minister, has said that he experienced ‘racism’ when he was a child and his parents sent him for extra drama lessons so that he could ‘speak properly’ without an accent to ‘fit in’. In 2022, Sunak scripted history...

Islamabad: Pakistan's election commission has disqualified Shah Mahmood Qureshi, a close aide of jailed ex-prime minister Imran Khan, from contesting elections for five years after the former foreign minister was sentenced to 10 years in prison for leaking state secrets. The disqualification of Qureshi, 67,...